Catch up with the cast of the iconic teen flick ‘Mean Girls,’ including Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried and Lacey Chabert
Mean Girls was a bona fide box office hit when it was released on April 30, 2004, sparking dozens of quotable quotes and pop culture moments that have lasted for decades.
In the 20 years since its premiere, Mean Girls also spawned a TV movie sequel, a Broadway musical and a movie adaptation of the musical, which hits theaters on Jan. 12, 2024. We can’t help that it’s popular.
In November 2023, Mean Girls stars Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried, Lacey Chabert, Daniel Franzese and Rajiv Surendra came together to film Walmart’s campaign supporting the brand’s holiday deals.
The commercial shows guidance counselor Cady Heron (Lohan), weather reporter Karen Smith (Seyfried), stage mom Gretchen Wieners (Chabert), proud dad Kevin Gnapoor (Surendra) and bestie Damian (Franzese) returning to North Shore High School, where a new crew of It girls rule the halls.
“Some things never change. On Wednesdays we wear pink, but now we shop Walmart Black Friday deals,” Cady says as Gretchen pulls up in a convertible filled with Walmart shopping bags.
In honor of the crew’s reunion and the film’s 20th anniversary in 2024, catch up with the full cast, then and now.
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Lindsay Lohan as Cady Heron
Cady Heron is the new girl from Africa at North Shore High School who breaks bad before going good again. In real life, Lindsay Lohan has had her own career and personal ups and downs with legal and substance abuse issues, but Mean Girls was what initially launched Lohan into mega-fame.
After Mean Girls, Lohan starred in films like Just My Luck (2006), Georgia Rule (2007), I Know Who Killed Me (2007), Machete (2010) and The Canyons (2013). On television, Lohan had recurring roles on Ugly Betty and the British series Sick Note and starred as Elizabeth Taylor in the 2012 Lifetime movie Liz & Dick (2012)
After an absence from the screen, Lohan returned in a 2022 Netflix holiday rom-com, Falling for Christmas, followed by another Netflix rom-com, Irish Wish (2023). She is set to reunite with Jamie Lee Curtis for the upcoming sequel of Disney’s 2003 flick Freaky Friday.
In 2022, Lohan married financier Bader Shammas. In March 2023, Lohan revealed that they were expecting their first baby; son Luai arrived that July.
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Rachel McAdams as Regina George
Regina George is the most popular, most terrifying girl in school; a half a virgin who wears pink on Wednesdays. It was a breakthrough role for Rachel McAdams, who actually turned 25 during the filming of Mean Girls despite playing a high school student.
After Mean Girls, McAdams’ career exploded. She starred in everything from The Notebook (2004) and Wedding Crashers (2005) to Midnight in Paris (2011) to Spotlight (2015), the latter for which she earned an Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. McAdams also starred in a lead role on the second season of HBO’s True Detective.
In 2022, McAdams reprised her role as Dr. Christine Palmer in the Marvel Cinematic Universe sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. She also starred in the film adaptation of Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (2023), and made her Broadway debut in 
the play Mary Jane in April 2024.
McAdams has two children with screenwriter Jamie Linden.
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Amanda Seyfried as Karen Smith
As Karen Smith — she’s a mouse (duh) and has ESPN or something — Amanda Seyfried made a hilarious impression in her big-screen debut as the Plastics’ resident airhead.
The role paid off for Seyfried, who followed Mean Girls with a long run on Big Love, leading roles in the Mamma Mia! movies and landing the part of Cosette in Tom Hooper’s film adaptation of Les Misérables (2012). Seyfried received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for playing Golden Age of Hollywood actress Marion Davies in Mank (2020). In September 2022, she won an Emmy for her portrayal of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout. The esteemed actress is also a Lancôme Ambassadress.
Seyfried is mom to a daughter and son with her husband, Thomas Sadoski.
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Lacey Chabert as Gretchen Wieners
Gretchen is probably best known for trying to make “fetch” happen. (It’s not going to happen.)
Before Mean Girls, Lacey Chabert already had a career as a child actor, primarily in voice roles in movies like Anastasia (1997) and The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride (1998) and on the Nickelodeon series The Wild Thornberrys. She also was a main cast member on Party of Five, playing Claudia Salinger for all six seasons of the series. After Mean Girls, Chabert continued her TV movie and voice-over work along with appearing in a few feature films like Black Christmas (2006) and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009). However, it’s clear that Chabert found her true calling when she began starring in Hallmark Channel movies, having appeared in more than 30 for the network.
She also became a mom; she and her husband, David Nehdar, had daughter Julia in 2016.
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Tina Fey as Ms. Norbury
Ms. Norbury is the empathetic teacher who asks her students to “stop calling each other sluts and whores.” Tina Fey not only nailed the role, but she also wrote the screenplay for Mean Girls.
Fey has continued to work both in front of and behind the camera. After concluding her groundbreaking run as a cast member and writer of Saturday Night Live in 2006, Fey created and starred on the sitcom 30 Rock. She’s kept busy writing, producing and/or acting on shows like Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Only Murders in the Building and in films like Baby Mama (2008), Date Night (2010), Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) and Soul (2020). Her critically acclaimed work has garnered Fey many accolades, including nine Emmys, two Golden Globes and seven Writers Guild of America awards. Fey was also the youngest-ever recipient of the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
The multihyphenate star also helped give Mean Girls a second life when she brought it to Broadway and scored a Tony nomination for outstanding book of a musical for her work (and cast herself as a lead in a hilarious SNL spoof). Fey reprised her role as Ms. Norbury for the 2024 film adaptation of the Mean Girls musical.
Fey has been married to composer-producer Jeff Richmond since 2001 and they have two daughters. The couple also works together — in addition to providing original music for television and film projects Fey has worked on, Richmond received a Tony nomination for writing the score for the Mean Girls musical.